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Description
The stunning debut story collection from the author of
Foster
and the Booker Prize shortlised
Small Things Like These
'A beautiful, tender work of great clarity.' Sebastian Barry
'Simply put, Claire Keegan is one of the greatest fiction writers in the world.' George Saunders
'Among the finest contemporary stories written recently in English.'
Observer
A secret one-night tryst in the city. A sister's revenge. A love-struck doctor. A missing girl. In
Antarctica
, an astonishing sequence of stories, one of our most gifted writers illuminates human longing and fallibility in all its variety.
Opis z tylnej okładki książki
The debut collection of stories from the author of Foster and Small Things Like These. ** From the author of the Booker-shortlisted Small Things Like These ** Antarctica by Claire Keegan is a grand, cold sweep of a short story collection, inhabiting a world where dreams, memory and chance can have crippling consequences for those involved. 'No better feeling than reading a book that makes you excited to discover everything its author has ever written...' - Douglas Stuart (Winner of the Booker Prize 20
O autorze
Claire Keegan's stories are translated into more than thirty-five languages.
Antarctica
won the Rooney Prize for Irish Literature.
Walk the Blue Fields
won the Edge Hill Prize for the finest collection of stories published in the British Isles.
Foster
won the Davy Byrnes Award and in 2020 was chosen by
The Times
as one of the top fifty works of fiction to be published in the twenty-first century.
Small Things Like These
was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and the Rathbones Folio Prize, awarded for the best work of literature, regardless of form, to be published in the English language. It won the Kerry Group Irish Novel of the Year Award, the Ambassadors' Prize and the Orwell Prize for Political Fiction.
Product information
- Długość wersji drukowanej:209 str.
- Język:Angielski
- Wydawca:Faber And Faber Ltd.
- Data publikacji:1 listopada 2023
- Wymiary:12.9 x 1.5 x 19.8 cm
- ISBN-10:0571382215
- ISBN-13:978-0571382217
- Author:Claire Keegan
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